Caspian Books

Caspian Books Small town book store in downtown Tracy, CA
We carry a wide variety of fiction & non fiction books!

06/04/2026

So crazy

The Summer Reading Challenge is back!We have these little guys from handing out the forms right at the front table or y...
06/03/2026

The Summer Reading Challenge is back!
We have these little guys from handing out the forms right at the front table or you can swipe a couple times & print it from home.
Color in a book for every fifteen minutes you read between now and September 1st then when it’s complete bring it in store. You’ll get a free bookmark & be entered to win a $25 gift card (& maybe a couple other goodies 🤫).
This is for ALL ages! So have everyone in the family participate & make it a summer of reading. Plus you can fill in as many sheets as you can complete during the three months (we’re trusting you to be honest 😘)!

“We struggle and fight for our joy — an unreserved and unapologetic joy that springs from our ability to live as we are....
06/02/2026

“We struggle and fight for our joy — an unreserved and unapologetic joy that springs from our ability to live as we are. It’s a joy worth fighting for and it’s this joy that links all of our struggles together.” -Lady Phyll

Happy Pride month to all the beautiful people who celebrate 💛
We love you, welcome you, & support you.
You deserve to be exactly who you are because who you are is a pretty incredible person 💛
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06/01/2026

Join us in celebrating Pride Month by purchasing a new book by LGBTQIA+ authors 📚
Every book has been recommended by a bookseller at LGBTQIA+-owned bookstores.

Get 15% off 100+ curated titles with code Pride26. Head to the link in bio to see the full list 🔗

Expires 6/30/26. Discount off list prices. Excludes ebooks.

What a busy month we have coming up!✨ Our Summer Reading Challenge starts next week & runs all the way through September...
05/30/2026

What a busy month we have coming up!

✨ Our Summer Reading Challenge starts next week & runs all the way through September 1st! It’s for ALL ages & we’ll be posting the full details next week.

✨ We have our regular monthly events happening too. Make sure you don’t miss our story time with , our IG live sale, our NEW Senior social hour (with free coffee & a discount for anyone 65 or older), plus TWO Silent Book Club opportunities.

✨ We have a special after hours event next month too with limited tickets available! Check out our IG at the end of next week to get details about our brick painting activity at the end of next week.

Today happens to be my birthday & there is nothing I’d like more than to see us meet our monthly goal for the first time...
05/29/2026

Today happens to be my birthday & there is nothing I’d like more than to see us meet our monthly goal for the first time this yeah! Stop by, say hi, & help us make it happen 💛

So we went to the museum yesterday.& there’s no way that seeing a Monet in person can compare to anything AI can create....
05/28/2026

So we went to the museum yesterday.
& there’s no way that seeing a Monet in person can compare to anything AI can create.
Did you know that before going to Venice towards the end of his life Monet had hit a creative wall that made him feel like his work was inadequate? Despite being already a critically beloved painter he’d felt the work he’d been doing was unsatisfactory. His wife suggested they visit Venice & there he felt renewed & went on to create was considered to be the ‘grand finale’ of his life. His world famous water lily collection.
How could an AI create something without that sense of purpose? Without that feeling of inadequacy that leaves an artist striving for more?
There was multiple paintings of the same locations. As if Monet was trying to capture something he hadn’t found yet and wouldn’t stop till he did. An AI system doesn’t have that sense of determination.
Paul Cezanne said “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”. No computer can ever give you that pure emotion that a human soul can.
Support the artist, the authors, the dreamers…. As the author George Bernard Shaw said “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

We’re so close! I was a little down last week since it’s been such a rough month but I want to truly thank everyone who ...
05/26/2026

We’re so close! I was a little down last week since it’s been such a rough month but I want to truly thank everyone who came down to support us Saturday 💛 we made a HUGE leap forward!
We’re open Tuesday-Friday 10a-5p and Saturday we’ll be open 10a-9p. We can absolutely reach our goal this week!

Most of you know we’re trying to find 10,500 books a new home this year. Here’s a quick update as we head into the last ...
05/23/2026

Most of you know we’re trying to find 10,500 books a new home this year. Here’s a quick update as we head into the last week of the month & we’re just a tad bit behind.
May’s always a bit of a tough month for us but we know that’s we can pick up some ground in these last few days! We’re open today from 10a-5p PLUS teachers and educators get 20% off their entire purchase today!Some stop in, grab a new book, & shop local 💛

We know when we read books we’re connecting with authors & their thoughts. Words they’ve left behind even though they we...
05/22/2026

We know when we read books we’re connecting with authors & their thoughts. Words they’ve left behind even though they were gone from this world long before you were born.
But we’re a used bookstore so there’s another way we connect & that’s through people who have read the books before. We get donations from all kinds of people. People who cherished their books but need to make space. People who need to let go because they’re moving somewhere new. People who want to share what they love.
But there’s another category. And that’s the books we get from people who have passed away. For me these are the most poignant ones. Someone picked these books over the years & held onto them because in a moment of their life they meant something. Now they’re left for a new reader, sitting on our shelves waiting for a home.
This picture is my grief sitting on a shelf in a bookstore. These are some of my father’s books. He left them all to me when he passed nearly two years ago. They’ve sat in boxes for nearly a year waiting for me to come to a place where I could go through them. I finally did. I kept a lot but some needed to go find a place where they could be appreciated more so I brought them here. It was hard to process them & put them out knowing where they came from. Wanting to hold onto every string that led me back to my dad. But I also knew he was a huge part of the reason I love reading & it was ok to legacy live on with other people.
I wonder sometimes about the people who have read a book before me. And then I start to wonder where my books will end up someday when I move on from this world. It’s a beautiful thing to see words carry on beyond one life to become almost immortal. And maybe I’m romanticizing but I don’t I ever want to see it another way.

Address

48 W 10th Street
Tracy, CA
95376

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+12092210021

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